Brittany Bowe

Brittany Bowe
nation	United States
birthday	24th February 1988 (age 32)
place of birth	Ocala , United States
Career
Trainer	Ryan Shimabukuro
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 0 × 1 × World Cup medals 5 × 3 × 5 ×
winter Olympics bronze 2018 Pyeongchang Team tracking  Sprint World Championships gold 2015 Astana sprint gold 2016 Seoul sprint silver 2018 Changchun sprint bronze 2019 Heerenveen sprint  Individual distance world championships bronze 2013 Sochi 1000 m gold 2015 Heerenveen 1000 m gold 2015 Heerenveen 1500 m silver 2015 Heerenveen 500 m silver 2016 Kolomna 500 m bronze 2016 Kolomna 1000 m bronze 2016 Kolomna 1500 m gold 2019 Inzell 1000 m bronze 2019 Inzell 1500 m
Placements in the speed skating world cup
Debut in the World Cup 2011  World Cup victories 26th  Grand toilet 1. ( 2015/16 )  Total toilet 500 3. ( 2015/16 )  Total toilet 1000 1. ( 2014/15 , 2015/16 , 2018/19 , 2019/20 )  Total toilet 1500 1. ( 2015/16 , 2018/19 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  500 meters 2 6th 6th  1000 meters 17th 9 4th  1500 meters 7th 8th 5  Team competition 0 0 1
last change: March 8, 2020

Career
status	resigned
Medal table
World Cup medals 8 × 1 × 2 × JWM medals 9 × 6 × 3 ×
Track World Cup gold 2006 Anyang 3000 m relay gold 2007 Cali 3000 m relay gold 2008 Gijón 300 m gold 2008 Gijón 3000 m relay silver 2008 Gijón 500 m bronze 2008 Gijón 500 m Road World Cup gold 2006 Anyang 5000 m relay gold 2007 Cali 500 m gold 2007 Cali 5000 m relay bronze 2007 Cali 200 m gold 2008 Gijón 5000 m relay
last change: February 28, 2013

Brittany Bowe (born February 24, 1988 in Ocala , Florida ( USA )) is an American speed skater and former inline speed skater .

Career

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Bowe began her career as an inline speed skater . She got on wheels for the first time when she was eight. Between 2002 and 2005 she won nine world titles at the junior world championships . Between 2006 and 2008 she was able to win another eight world championship titles in the senior category.

In 2008 she ended her career as an inline speed skater because she wanted to devote herself to college and basketball . In 2010, when she was broadcasting the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver , she got the idea to try speed skating . She has been taking part in World Cup races since 2011, focusing on the sprint courses over 500 m and 1000 m. In 2012 she reached eighth place over 1000 m at the individual distance World Championships in Heerenveen .

In 2013 she came on the podium for the first time at the World Cup race in Calgary and took 3rd place in the 1000 m twice. In Erfurt she even achieved her first World Cup victory, also over her favorite distance of 1000 meters. At the 2013 Sprint World Championships in Salt Lake City , she finished eighth. At the 2013 World Cup in Sochi , she was third in the 1000m, winning her first international medal.

On November 22, 2015, she set a new world record over 1000 meters with 1: 12.18.

Bowe trains in Salt Lake City with Heather Richardson , the 2013 sprint world champion . At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , she finished eighth over 1000 meters. At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , she won the bronze medal in the team pursuit. In addition, she was there fifth over 500 m and 1500 m and fourth over 1000 m.

Personal bests

• 500 m 37.03 sec. (installed on November 20, 2015 in Salt Lake City)
• 1000 m 1: 11.61 min. (installed on March 9, 2019 in Salt Lake City)
• 1500 m 1: 50.32 min. (installed on March 10, 2019 in Salt Lake City)
• 3000 m 4: 13.99 min. (installed on November 2, 2012 in Milwaukee)

Participation in World Championships and Olympic Winter Games

Olympic games

• 2014 Sochi : 6th place team pursuit, 8th place 1000 m, 13th place 500 m, 14th place 1500 m
• 2018 Pyeongchang : 3rd place team pursuit, 4th place 1000 m, 5th place 500 m, 5th place 1500 m

Individual distance world championships

• 2012 Heerenveen : 8th place 1000 m, 16th place 2 × 500 m
• 2013 Sochi : 3rd place 1000 m, 14th place 2 × 500 m
• 2015 Heerenveen : 1st place 1000 m, 1st place 1500 m, 2nd place 2 × 500 m
• 2016 Kolomna : 2nd place 2 × 500 m, 3rd place 1000 m, 3rd place 1500 m
• 2019 Inzell : 1st place 1000 m, 3rd place 1500 m, 6th place 500 m
• 2020 Salt Lake City : 8th place 1000 m, 13th place 500 m, 14th place 1500 m

Sprint World Championships

• 2012 Calgary : 18th place sprint all-around
• 2013 Salt Lake City : 8th place sprint all-around
• 2015 Astana : 1st place sprint all-around
• 2016 Seoul : 1st place sprint all-around event
• 2018 Changchun : 2nd place sprint all-around
• 2019 Heerenveen : 3rd place sprint all-around
• 2020 Hamar : 6th place sprint all-around

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	March 3, 2013	Erfurt	1000 m
2.	17th November 2013	Salt Lake City	1000 m
3.	November 30, 2013	Astana	1500 m
4th	December 6, 2014	Berlin	1000 m
5.	February 8, 2015	Heerenveen	1000 m
6th	March 21, 2015	Erfurt	1500 m
7th	March 22, 2015	Erfurt	1000 m
8th.	15th November 2015	Calgary	1500 m
9.	November 22, 2015	Salt Lake City	1000 m
10.	5th December 2015	Inzell	1000 m
11.	December 6, 2015	Inzell	1500 m
12.	December 12, 2015	Heerenveen	1000 m
13.	January 31, 2016	Stavanger	1000 m
14th	March 11, 2016	Heerenveen	500 m
15th	March 12, 2016	Heerenveen	500 m
16.	March 12, 2016	Heerenveen	1500 m
17th	March 13, 2016	Heerenveen	1000 m
18th	17th November 2018	Obihiro	1500 m
19th	7th December 2018	Tomaszów Mazowiecki	1000 m
20th	December 16, 2018	Heerenveen	1000 m
21st	2nd February 2019	Hamar	1000 m
22nd	3rd February 2019	Hamar	1500 m
23.	March 9, 2019	Salt Lake City	1000 m
24.	17th November 2019	Minsk	1000 m
25th	December 6, 2019	Nur-Sultan	1000 m
26th	December 14, 2019	Nagano	1000 m

Personal

Bowe is a lesbian and has a relationship with the Dutch inline skater Manon Kamminga .

Web links

• Brittany Bowe for Team USA
• Pictures and photos of Brittany Bowe
• Statistics on the Speed ​​Skating News page

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Brittany Bowe at US Speedskating usspeedskating.org accessed on March 1, 2013
2. ↑ L-MAG Online: These are the lesbian and bisexual Olympians in PyeongChang , February 11, 2018, accessed on February 25, 2018.